[Pics] Flickr Spotlight #9 – Amazing Athlete Portraits

As some of you may know, I started my photography career as a sport/basketball photographer, and I'm a big sports fan in general. This month is one of the craziest months in sports world-wide with March Madness, Champions League Quarter Finals, Euroleague Quarter Finals, and of course some really great NBA games - so I thought it's a great time to do a post related to that topic: Athlete Portraits.

Here are some of the most amazing athlete portraits found on Flickr - some from photographers you may know already, and some from people you never heard of before - but they all got one thing in common: Amazing shots!.

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Noam Galai is a Senior Fstoppers Staff Writer and NYC Celebrity / Entertainment photographer. Noam's work appears on publications such as Time Magazine, New York Times, People Magazine, Vogue and Us Weekly on a daily basis.

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Awesome portraits Noam. I can't help but notice though, all of these portraits are rather heavy on the strobist-technique. If an athlete portrait photographer really wanted to stand out from the crowd, he'd probably try a slightly more edgy, raw style of photography.

If you didn't know better, you'd think that most of the images were taken by the same photographer. There's a consistent style, somewhat dark with dramatic lighting. This is the trend today. In 50 years, someone will look at these images and say, "Well,that was the style back in the early 21st century." So, what will be the style in 10, 20, or 30 years? Can anyone predict?